LibriVox recording of The Wanderings of Oisin, by William Butler Yeats. Read by Nathan.

This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisin and St. Patrick.

Oisin relates his three-hundred year sojourn in the immortal isles of Faerie. In the isles, Oisin married the beautiful Sidhe Niamh: together they traveled, feasted, and quested. At last Oisin succumbs to the temptation to return and visit the lands of mortal men: inadvertently slipping from his faerie horse, his body touches the ground and instantly puts on the flesh of a decrepit old man.

Oisin describes various islands and what he did there: contrasting his noble deeds with the degenerate weakness of the present generation.

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This audio is part of the collection: The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection
It also belongs to collections: Audio Books & Poetry; Community Audio

Artist/Composer: William Butler Yeats
Date: 2010-01-29
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobook; poetry; yeats; oisin

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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